“Minority science” in the short 20th century

0577666 - MÚA 2024 RIV eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Surman, Jan - Babak, Galina - Gecko, Tomáš
“Minority science” in the short 20th century.
[Prague, 30.03.2023-01.04.2023, (K-WRD 20/16)]
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) LQ300772201
Program: Prémie Lumina quaeruntur
Institutional support: RVO:67985921
Keywords : history of science * minority science * historical epistemology
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
https://imagesofscience.wordpress.com/166-2/

20th century is a period characterised by manifold processes of redrawing social, cultural, and geographic boundaries – from the fall of empires, to the end of the Soviet Union. Scholars were involved in these redrawings in manifold roles. They could be facilitators of change but also those affected by it. In our conference we will look at those scholars who were located at the margins of the academia, but also became members of minorities due to expulsion or change of political borders. Cultural historians have accentuated that being an “other” can allow a more distant and critical perception of one’s surrounding society, a thesis which we want to investigate closer by looking at scholars and scientists and their imaginations of, and relation to, respective “mainstreams.” By connecting epistemic and social othering and marginalisation we do not want to blur boundaries between them, but on the contrary, investigate how the boundaries between “social” and “epistemic” are drawn and how these entities are interrelated, and thus to uncover how (academic) power relations are entangled with those in the society at large.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346795